More information from Stack Overflow will appear in ChatGPT, and Stack Overflow will use OpenAI models for its products.
OpenAI and the developer platform Stack Overflow have announced a partnership that could potentially improve the performance of AI models and bring more technical information into ChatGPT.
OpenAI will have access to Stack Overflow’s API and will receive feedback from the developer community to improve the performance of AI models. OpenAI, in turn, will give Stack Overflow attribution — aka link to its contents — in ChatGPT. Users of the chatbot will see more information from Stack Overflow’s knowledge archive if they ask ChatGPT coding or technical questions. The companies write in the press release that this will “foster deeper engagement with content.”
Stack Overflow will use OpenAI’s large language models to expand its Overflow AI, the generative AI application it announced last year. Overflow AI would add AI-powered natural language search to Stack Overflow. Stack Overflow notes it will combine feedback from its community and internal testing of OpenAI models as it plans to make more AI products for its users.
The first set of integrations will be available in the first half of the year, though Stack Overflow did not specify which integrations will be rolling out first. Stack Overflow made a similar deal with Google in February, where Gemini for Google Cloud users (not to be confused with Gemini the chatbot) can get coding suggestions directly from Stack Overflow.
For years, developers have turned to Stack Overflow to answer coding questions. Stack Overflow made a big hiring push in 2022, but the company laid off 28 percent of its employees in October. Stack Overflow did not give a reason for the cuts; however, the move did come amid the rise of AI-assisted coding. In 2022, Stack Overflow temporarily banned users from sharing ChatGPT responses on its site.
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Emilia David
